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'Nell Gwynne, or Harlequin Merry Monarch', pantomime by Nelson Lee. Licence sent 18 December 1852 for performance at the Adelphi 27 December 1852. Request for Licence written and signed by Benjamin Webster. Keywords: fairies and other supernatural ...
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'The woman of the world', drama in two acts by Nelson Lee Jnr. Licence sent 25 September 1858 for performance at the City of London Theatre. Title page signed Messrs Johnson and Nelson Lee. See also Add. 52976 K, 52978 C, and 52978 D. Based on t...
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'King Comet and Prince Quicksilver, or, Harlequin 'All the world and his wife', pantomime by Nelson Lee. Licence sent 20 December 1858 for performance at the City of London. Cover bears names of Messrs Johnson and Nelson Lee. Revisions and penci...
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'Joe Miller, or Harlequin wit, jollity and satire', comic pantomime by Nelson Lee. Licence sent 23 December 1857 for performance at the Marylebone the same day. Includes comic scenes. LCO Day Book Add. 53073 records the stipulation that a few lin...
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'Harlequin Baron Munchausen and his comical cream cob cruiser, or, The queen of the fairy steeds' haunt', pantomime by Nelson Lee. Licence sent 21 December 1858 for performance at Astley's Amphitheatre. LCO Day Book Add. 52703 records the stipulat...
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'Idiot of the mountain', drama in three acts by Nelson Lee the younger and W. Travers. Licence sent 30 January 1862 for performance at the City of London. Cover signed Messrs. Johnson and Nelson Lee and Nelson Lee the younger. Sketch of set desig...
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‘The fallen star’, drama in two acts by Nelson Lee. Licence sent 9 November 1859 for performance at the City of London. Back page signed Mssrs. Johnson and Nelson Lee. Keywords: balls, nobility, artists, lower-class characters, convicts, letters,...
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'The spectre ostler' , 'original comic scenes never acted ….. invented and written by Nelson Lee'. Not listed in either Nicoll or the LCO Day Book Add. 52703. Contains coloured illustration of set design, ‘The old Red Lion’, in ink and watercolour....
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‘Anne Boleyn, or, Harlequin King Harry and the miller of the river Dee’, comic pantomime by Nelson Lee. Licence sent 19 December 1856 for performance at the City of London 19 December 1856. Cover signed Messrs. Johnson and Nelson Lee. Revisions a...
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‘The tempter’, drama in three acts by Nelson Lee. Licence sent 1 December 1859 for performance at the City of London. Keywords: gambling, debt, India, family relationships, military, navy, superstition, ghosts, robbery, murder, burglary, disguise,...
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‘Harlequin Tom Moody and Old Towler, or, The goddess Diana and the Fairy Progress ’, ‘grand comic equestrian pantomime’ by Nelson Lee. Licence sent 17 December 1859 for performance at Astleys. Keywords: Greek mythology, legends, horses, fairies, h...
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'Billy Button's journey to Brentford, or, Harlequin and the ladies favourite', pantomime by Nelson Lee. Licence sent 19 December 1853 for performance at Astley’s Royal Amphitheatre 26 December 1853. Signed by William Cooke, lessee and manager as w...
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'The ocean queen and Sleeping Beauty of the deep, or, Harlequin and the mystic branch', comic pantomime in one act by Nelson Lee. Licence sent 19 December 1853 for performance at the City of London 26 December 1853. Keywords: harlequinade, fairies...
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'The midnight spectre!!!, or, The fatal secret!', 'a Richardsonian' melo-drama in one act by Nelson Lee the younger. Licence sent 3 September 1861 for performance at the Adelphi. "For Bill. Upon this occasion only will be performed a mysterious R...
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'Romeo and Juliet, or, Harlequin Queen Mab and the world of dreams', pantomime by Nelson Lee. Licence sent 8 December 1852 for performance at the Olympic 27 December 1852. Revisions throughout the text. Keywords: literature and literary reference...
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'The star of the woodlands', melodrama in two acts, probably by Nelson Lee. Licence sent 4 February 1861 for performance at the City of London Theatre. Note on cover that script is the licence copy made for Messrs. Johnson and Nelson Lee, the prop...
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'King Emerald, or, Harlequin's Crystal Palace in fairyland', comic pantomime by Nelson Lee. Licence sent 16 December 1852 for performance at the City of London Theatre 27 December 1852. Signed by Mssrs. Johnson and Nelson Lee. Songs included in M...
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'A tale of the Spanish Wars, or, The horse of the wreck', grand nautical equestrian spectacle in two acts by Nelson Lee. Licence sent 10 April 1854 for performance at Astley's Royal Amphitheatre 17 April 1854. Signed by lessee and manager, William...
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'The usurer, or, The life of a vagrant' (altered from 'The usurer, or, A struggle for life') ('The moneylender, or, The life of a vagrant'), drama in two acts by Nelson Lee. Licence sent 13 August 1861 for performance at the City of London. Origin...
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'Harlequin King Ugly Mug, and my Lady Lee of old London Bridge', pantomime. Licence sent 19 December 1853 for performance at the Marylebone 26 December 1853. Signed by J. William Wallack. Songs included in MS. Keywords: supernatural, fairies and ...
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'Harry Carely, or, The oak and the bramble', drama in two acts by Nelson Lee the younger. Licence sent 18 October 1862 for performance at the City of London. “A new drama of everyday life”. Names of Messrs. Johnson and Nelson Lee noted on the cov...
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'The fox and the grapes or, Harlequin and old Esop's fables', pantomime. Licence sent 17 December 1855 for performance at the City of London 26 December 1855. Signed by Messrs. Johnson and Nelson Lee. Keywords: animals, fairies and other supernat...
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'Harlequin sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye, four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie', pantomime by Nelson Lee, Junior. No details of date of licence, for performance at City of London. Names of Messrs. Johnson and Lee noted on cover...
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'Romeo and Juliet, or, Harlequin Queen Mab and the world of dreams', pantomime by Nelson Lee. Licence sent 8 December 1852 for performance at the Olympic 27 December 1852. Signed by W. Farren, Manager. Keywords: Commedia dell'Arte, suburbs, food ...
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'Birds, beasts and fishes, or, Harlequin and natural history', pantomime in one act by Nelson Lee. Licence sent 20 December 1854 for performance at City of London 26 December 1854. Keywords: Harlequinade, science and technology, festivals and celeb...
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‘Puss in boots’, pantomime by J. V. Bridgeman. Licence sent 14 December 1859 for performance at Covent Garden on 26 December 1859. Stage directions underlined in red ink. Bound with three separate sets of comic scenes: ‘A perfectly original comic...
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'Young Norval on the Grampian Hills, or, Harlequin Lord Ullins daughter', comic Christmas pantomime by Nelson Lee. Licence sent 14 December 1854 or performance at the Marylebone 26 December 1854. Signed by J. William Wallack, manager. Keywords: f...
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